[SOLVED] PHP question

[Mathematicman]

Hey everybody

 

I'm kinda new to php... so if this question has been asked before, I'm sorry...

 

I was trying to put together a PHP program (is that what you call it?).

And I needed it to refresh every 60 seconds or so...

So I looked in the "PHP Manual" on php.net... and I found the function "ncurses_refresh"

 

Below is the URL to the page where I found it

 

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.ncurses-refresh.php

 

So I tried it... The code looked something like this:

 

<?php

$ch= "5";

ncurses_refresh( int $ch );

?>

 

And it came up with this error:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/joshua77/public_html/PHP_sandbox/test1.php on line 3

 

So my question is... What do I need to do to fix it?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[madspof]

i wouoldnt bother with the php redirect plus i have never heard of it. I would use a bit of html to get your page to refresh this is what you need

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60">

[trq]

ncurses is for use within shells, not a within a server environment. There is no refresh function in php because it runs on the server not the client. For client side interations you need to use Javascript.

[madspof]

But the code I provided would work either way

[Mathematicman]

Ok... Thanks for your help guys

 

I was going to try and do the whole thing without html...

 

but after trying it out I see it works great...

 

So thanks again for your help

 

[Jessica]

Well, to address the actual ERROR:

the int in the manual is telling you what type of variable to send. You don't type int in your code. You just send the variable.

ncurses_refresh($ch);

 

However, use one of the other methods provided here to do what you want.